Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-04
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

TSCOF0r SdldIy iOT S0TflC0S DIS mUslCdl
director, amounting to $24,5OO.
HE directors of the Minneapolis ex
position will ask Mr.. Gladstone to open
the affair by pressing an electric button
at London if the cable companies report
the thing feasible.
AT meeting of the Massachusetts Re
publican State Central Committee at
Boston on Thursday it was voted to hold
the ssState convention in that city Sep
TENDER %.
WILLIAM j. HAMMOND d Sons, iron
manufacturers, of Pittsburg, are inanci-
ally embarrassed, and have called meet
ing of their creditors. Their mill was
destroyed by fire recently, causing them
heavy loss, which is supposed to have
led to their financial troubles.
Bowen & Signor, proprietors), have
figured at 100000, and the assets at
about $4,000.
Mr.. FRANCIS A. O'KEEFE, mayor of the
ancient city of Limerick, ard a prominent
member of the nationalist party, is to
make tour of the United States.
q E. E. PAGE welI-to-do retired farmer,
living several miles south of Naperville,
H., left home on or about July 5.
Nothing of his whereabouts has been
learned since, or the reason of his sudden
departure.
A FIRE early Wednesday morning, at
LidcoIn, Neb., destroyed Humphrey Bros.
hardware store and several other large
stores, causing total loss of 100000,
which is covered by insurance.
MRS. j. LAWRENCE SMITH, niece of the
late Mrs. Stewart, has sued Judge Hilton
to obtain an accounting and to set aside
the transfer of the dry-goods business
made by Mrs. Stewart in 1876, which she
asserts was unlawfuliy made and against
the interests of the heirs.
j. j. CoMLEY, editor of the Commercial
and ex-mirister to the Sandwich Islands,
who had been i'll from IMPLICATION of
disorders for some time, died at 1920
last night at his residence in Toledo, aged
SO. He had long been republican in
politics.
The Columbian Government has grant
ed to the Central and South American
Telegraph Company authority to estab-
lish and operate telegraph line across
the Isthmus of Panama and to extend its
cables from Colon along the Atlantic
coast to South America.
The remains of Alexander McKinnon,
the first baseman of the Pittsburg league
club, were inferred Tuesday at Lowell,
Mass. The floral offerings completely
covered the grave.
DR.. E. d. STANDIFoRD, of Louisville,
died at his residence in that city. He
was an active candidate to succeed
Mr.. Beck ia the United States Senate,
and was prominent in business and polit-
ical circles.
THE Carpenters and Builders associa-
top, of Chicago, held meeting Satur-
day night, and refused to submit to arbi-
tration. The iourneymen carpenters say
that they will surely strike work on all
jobs where more than eight hours are re-
quired.
The union longshoremen of New York,
who failed to secure an increase in wages
for night work by striking last winter,
and who returned to work in conse-
quence, have repeated the old demands,
and will go out again if they are not &C
ceded to.
THE Northern Pacific railroad crop re-
port for the past week is generally favor
able. Rains have fallen almost every day.
and the wheat in nearly every section,
except between st. Paul and BBainerd,
looks we'll. On the Duluth and Manitoba
road and ia the Red river valley the yield
will be larger than usual, and generally it
will at least be an average.
The largest steamboat in the world is
to be built for the Fall River Line. It
will be called the Puritan, and will be 404
feet long at the water line. She will
have 335 state-rooms and all modern i'm
provements. She will cost $50O,00O, and
will be finished in May, 1889.
INSURANCE men are troubled over the
number of disastrous fires that have oc-
CURED in the past six months. 1t is be-
lieved that the teaching of Johann Most,
the Anarchist, and his followers have led
to many of the CONGREGATIONS, and Most's
book on dynamite and phosphorus as in
cendiary agents have be en- referred to the
police committee at New York. Fire
underwriters are discussing various
remedies for avertiDg those heavy losses
which are said to be draining the re-
sources of the companies.